Duty of Care

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Waste Legislation Your Business

• Duty of Care
• Waste kept securely
• Waste Transfer Notes
• describes/codes your waste
• kept on file for 2 years minimum
• Check your waste carrier is bonafide
• certificate, expiry date and number
• Your duty of care is never relinquished

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Waste Legislation Your Business

• Is my waste Hazardous?
• European Waste Catalogue / List of Wastes Regs
• EA guidance WM2
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk/wm2
• Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 have superceded
  Special Waste Regulations 1996
• Hazardous Waste Producers must notify (register
  with) Environment Agency
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk/newrulesonwaste

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Waste Legislation Your Business

• Packaging Waste Regulations
• Manufacturers, converters, importers,
  pack-fillers or sellers who
• handle gt50t/yr of packaging/packaging materials
• AND have a turnover of gt2M
• required to recover recycle certain age
• What is packaging?
• To avoid qualifying reduce to lt 50t/yr

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Waste Legislation Your Business

• Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment Directive
• Manufacturers responsible for take back
  recycling at end of life
• Product design for reuse/refurb/disassembly
• ROHS Directive
• Bans certain hazardous substances in EEE

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Oil storage regulations

• Apply if storing more than 200 litres of oil
• Must have secondary containment
• Ancillary equipment
• Valves, taps and hoses secured when not in use
• Regulations now apply to all oil storage!
• See pollution prevention guidelines (PPGs) for
  specifications for construction of bunds
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk/ppg

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Pollution prevention guidelines

• Common causes/solutions
• Spillages during delivery transport
• block off drains, soak up
• Contact EA/Water company
• Leaks due to neglect/vandalism/fire
• secure storage e.g. bunding
• Misuse of surface water drains
• colour code surface/foul

Source Environment Agency
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Legislation Help Advice

• Environment Agency
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk
• NetRegs - www.netregs.gov.uk
• Contact Centre - 08708 506 506
• Incident Hotline - 0800 80 70 60
• Energy Environment Helpline 0800 58 57 94
• Croners legislation newsletter Tel [phone]